Speckled Cape Tortoise: South African Endemic

Measuring between 6 and 8 centimeters (males are smaller than the female) this is the smallest Chelonian in the world. 

It´s known also as Speckled Padloper Tortoise (which means "path-walker" in Afrikaan). 
These tortoises are categorised as Near Threatened  specially because females lay only one egg each summer!

It´s found only in an arid region in the West of South Africa named Little Namaqualand along with just 4 other species of the genus Homopus.